George Simcock was born in 1860. He was well known in Lewes and Eastbourne as a coach proprietor and a ‘good whip’ (driver). At the age of sixteen, George was apprenticed to a butcher in Hailsham. Four years later he was ordered to pay Eliza Piper for the maintenance of their illegitimate son. In 1824, he married…
Tag: Brighton
The Green Man
The Right Honourable Henry Cope, Earl Vernor was a well known character in pre-Regency Brighton. He would walk around Brighton followed by a green carriage, driven by a green-uniformed groom. He himself wore all green and his lodgings were painted green with a green sofa and green bed. It was even said that he would only eat green…
A Policeman involved in a Sussex Disaster
This story starts with a sepia coloured photograph in the archives of the British Transport Police History Group titled ‘William Holman – Brighton Railway Police’. The photograph shows a bewhiskered, top-hatted man making a note in his pocket-book. But who was he? William Holman was born in Ightham, Kent in 1801. He was married to…
Quirky Sussex History by Kevin Gordon 